Libya: NATO acknowledges its airstrike killed civilians in Tripoli

BRUSSELS, (Xinhua): NATO said on Sunday that a number of Libyan civilians were killed in a NATO airstrike in Tripoli last night due to "a weapon system failure."

"A military missile site was the intended target of air strikes in Tripoli last night. However, it appears that one weapon did not strike the intended target and that there may have been a weapons system failure which may have caused a number of civilian casualties," the military alliance said in a statement.

Libya: 7 civilians killed by Nato air raid on Tripoli

Libyan Government sources said 7 civilians were killed in a Nato airstrike on Tripoli Sunday.

A number of journalists were taken by government officials to a residential area in the Arada district (East Tripoli) where they saw a dead body pulled from the rubble of a building that seemed to be under construction.

"There was intentional and deliberate targeting of the civilian houses," deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim told reporters at the site.

"This is another sign of the brutality of the West."